quarterly

English
A quarterly coat of arms (Hohenzollern)

Etymology

quarter +‎ -ly

Adjective

quarterly (not comparable)

  1. Occurring once every quarter year (three months).
    quarterly rent payments
  2. (heraldry) (of a coat of arms) Divided into four parts crosswise.
    The arms of Hohenzollern is quarterly argent and sable.

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

quarterly (not comparable)

  1. Once every quarter year (three months).
  2. (heraldry) In the four, or in two diagonally opposite, quarters of a shield.
    • 1950 June, Michael Robbins, “Heraldry of London Underground Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 380:
      It consisted of the arms of the City of London, Middlesex (three seaxes, or Saxon swords), Buckingham (a swan), and Hertford (a hart), arranged quarterly, on a background of crimson and ermine mantling […] .

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

quarterly (plural quarterlies)

  1. A periodical publication that appears four times per year.

Translations

See also
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.